(REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) Students walk around the Princeton University campus.

"When a black student is asked to address an authority figure as 'master' — and especially when serving that person, as students do in their capacity as 'master's aides' — the association can be disempowering," the YDN wrote.

And the master of Pierson College, Stephen Davis, wrote an email to Pierson students in August arguing the same point and asking them to no longer call him "Master Davis."

"I think there should be no context in our society or in our university in which an African-American student, professor or staff member — or any person, for that matter — should be asked to call anyone 'master,'" Davis wrote to his students, according to YDN. "And there should be no context where male-gendered titles should be normalized as markers of authority."

Yale is expected to reach a decision on changing the title later in the school year. For now, Yale President Peter Salovey has said little more than the school is working through the decision process.

“I am confident that Yale will come to a decision about the title ‘master’ in a reasonable amount of time,” Salovey said," according to the YDN.

“The recent decisions at Princeton and Harvard represent information that is useful for our discussions.”